You recently went shopping at the local supermarket. When you got home and studied your bill you found that you had been charged for items you did not purchase.
Write a letter to the supermarket manager explaining what has happened. Tell the manager how you feel about the error and ask him to do something about.

Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Ms. ... I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the poor service in your supermarket I had today, January 25, 2011. When I got home and studied my bill I found that I had been charged for a jar of coffee I did not purchase.
That mistake was made because a cashier was having a conversation with another staff member when she was serving me. How could your member of staff make errors with this kind of practice which customer has pay for? This is unprofessional by check out operator who should recognize customer and signify to customer that their purchasing with store is important to store and hopefully make customer want to shop again at store - sadly my bad experience hardly encouraged me to want to go again to your store.
Therefore, I would like to receive refund. Please find a photocopy of the receipt attached and give this matter you immediate attention. I look forward to receiving a satisfactory reply.
Yours faithfully,
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You recently went shopping at the local supermarket. When you got home and studied your bill you found that you had been charged for items you did not purchase.
Write a letter to the supermarket manager explaining what has happened. Tell the manager how you feel about the error and ask him to do something about.

Some people think the government should increase the sports facilities to
solve the public health problems. However, others think that other
measures should be taken to help resolve this problem. Discuss both views
and give your own opinion.

These days, it is very popular to have a healthy life style and many people
turn to sports. In this essay, I will discuss about the ways to develop sports
facilities in the society.

On the one hand, I could say that I agree that government should increase
sports to the society very effectively because government has a lot of
power to do this in many different ways. For example, they could show
social advertisements on TV or Internet and explain to people how
important it is to be athletic and healthy. Moreover, government has a rule
to include propaganda sport life style into the hospitals, schools and other
social places. It helps people to understand how important it is.
Furthermore, government could build many sport places for people such as
swimming pools, sport fields, sport clubs. It really helps people to turn to
sports, lose weight and spend nice time with family and kids.

On the other hand, could say that not only government could develop
sports facilities for people and teachers at school and universities have to
explain for teenagers that sports could help them to avoid problems with
health. Not only that, but employers could support sports in their firms. For
example, they could give for workers season tickets to go to the sports
clubs with discount and forbid smoke during work day.

To sum up, I could say that today it’s very important to be sporty to avoid
problems with health. People could develop sports facilities in many ways,
such as public advertisements, with help from the government or in other
ways. It really helps this generation to be healthy, sporty and good looking.

Nowadays air traffic is increasingly leading to more noise, airport construction and pollution. There are several opinions for and against such low-cost passenger flights.

They say government should reduce air traffic by taxing it more heavily. I think that it may be a great solution of this problem if everybody could afford such expensive flights. But still it is not fair to rise prices so dramatically.
Another minus of this situation is that high taxes will reduce popularity of some historical places and tourism industry will lose big amount of funds. It definitely will affect economics because expensive flights don't bring such a big profit as it is with low-cost passenger flights.

But still there are some advantages of such high- cost passenger flights. One of them is decreasing air pollution. If amount of flight was less, environment will be pure in nearest future. Although, the USA began to manufacture new plains which save about one third of all fuel and it doesn't harm nature so significantly as it was in the past.

In conclusion I can say that every model has 2 sides and there are many solutions of this problematic situation. Government can't be involved in this problem because every air company should decide what to do by itself. And I think that we have to produce environmentally friendly transport to make level of pollution decrease.

School children are becoming far too dependent on computers. This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills. Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to teaching basic sutdy skills.
Do you agree or disagree?

New technologies are entering into our life rapidly. One of the spheres where computers are becoming useful and necessary is education. However, except for their pluses, computers also have own disadvantages. Nowadays, many children at school adapted to computers and became too dependent on them. So, teachers alarm that they must go back to teaching main study skills.

In my book, it is wrong opinion. Of course, computers cannot be without minuses. Nevertheless, these dimerits are not connected with education system. Firstly, by using computers, in particular the Internet, students may have access to the plenty of different learning programs and electronic books. If someone want to rad for example "Robinzone Cruzo", but has not original book and does not want to go to the library, he or she easily can find this book in the Web.

Secondly, I would not agree with the statement that the use of computers effect on writing skills. You know that all computers have the text redactor programs, such as 'Word', 'AkelPad' and so on. For instance, when you write by 'Word', this program will check your text and find your mistakes. There is no doubt that it really helps to the learners of the foreign languages. When I write email or essays in English, my computer shows me my mistakes made immediately and gives the correct spellings of the words.

All in all, I would not recommend to avoid the use of computers in the classrooms. Because, they really help us to get the high level of education in modern life.

School children are becoming far too dependent on computers. This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills. Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to teaching basic sutdy skills.Do you agree or disagree?

Some countries require that school children are taught one foreign language, while other countries do not require any foreign languages to be taught. Discuss the advantages of both approaches and give your opinion.

The matter of considerable controversy at present is which education process is better for our kids. Some of the countries believe that learning foreign languages is good, others think that it is not so necessary for them. This essay will discuss both views.

On the one hand, I agree that learning two or three foreign languages at the same time is good for kids leaning process if it is interesting, and could develop them and build their communicative skills. Moreover, learning some languages together is easier then learning on our own.

For example, in my country, it is very common when children learn many foreign languages at school. I know one family where all the children learn English and Spanish languages at the same time and not get tired because teachers make learning process very interesting and well understanding. Needless to say, language knowledge is very important for their job in the future.

On the other hand, not learning any foreign languages can help youngsters to focus on the other important subjects such as math or history.

To support this idea, I can say that students from advanced math school do not need to learn languages much because the focus is math.

In conclusion, I should say that over the past quarter century language knowledge has become very important in our life. As we know, kids are the future of us, so they need to know not only their native language.

Some people think the government should increase the sports facilities to
solve the public health problems. However, others think that other
measures should be taken to help resolve this problem. Discuss both views
and give your own opinion.

Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

In our contemporary world justice system has been perfecting with new methods of judgment thus it raises vivid debates among all walks of life. One of those methods is to judge with fixed punishment for each type of crime, however, there are people who stand against such measures. Before, drawing a conclusion all the pros and cons should be assessed.

First of all, it is necessary to take into account the disadvantages of the fixed punishment. In some cases it could be condemned with capital punishment, furthermore almost in all justice systems the defendant is punished with more slightly punishment, thus the prisoner rehabilitates during the jail term. In a nutshell if fixed punishment is accepted then it would be very cruel system as the mentioned method will not consider whether the prisoner committed the crime for the first time or not, the punishment will be the same. One of the advantages of this method is that it keeps society in fear and leads to fall of the crime rate.

Secondly, the other side of the dispute contends that it is necessary to take into account all the peculiarities of the committed crime, in such cases the psyche of the defendant is taken into account, thus it can be concluded in what circumstances the accused committed the crime. It is evident that this method is soft against real criminals as they commit the crime considering all the weakness of this method, in other words they plan their crime.

To sum up, as the proverb says every cloud has a silver lining, therefore in my opinion the given methods seem like a paradox. If the former method is used then the value of human life will decrease and as for the later there will be more and more crimes committed, thus it can be said that the crux of the matter still remains unsolved.

Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion..

С точки зрения структуры и огранизации - никаких претензий! Мне очень понравился нестандартный подход, т.е. сначала disadvantages. Но, с моей точки зрения, (may I speak English now, please?) you failed to explain the change of directions, i.e. why you are starting with disadvantages. I'd add something like it is necessary to take into account the disadvantages of the fixed punishmentas аs they seem to be more pronounced/easier to notice/more numerous, etc.

Another obvious drawback is almost complete lack of modality even in the sentences that are crying for it As a result, your essay comes out as too strong and too opionated, which is not a good idea both culturally and language wise.:It is evident that this method is soft against real criminals as they probably commit the ...One of the advantages of this method is that it would keep society in fear and might lead to the fall of the crime rate.

I know it's very difficult to get synonyms to 'commit crime' but you should've been trying. One of the options is changing the phrase, e.g. the crime commited. Another option is 'breaking the law'. Otherwise, there are too many 'commit crime'.

And a kind reminder that 'however' is a linking word, not a conjunction, and, therefore, cannot be used to connect two parts of the sentence:
type of crime, however, there are people -> type of crime. However, there are people (or: type of crime; however, there are people ). Generally, I think there are a couple of other mistakes in punctuation so I think you should go through your essay again and try to fix the problem.

You used a conditional sentence of the 1st (Real type) in the conclusion - and this is a plus. How about a sentence using a 2nd conditional? The topic of the essay allows for this, I'm sure.

Your sentence stucture is mostly correct and well developed and you've obviously tried to use a variety of different structures, which is really good.

Each country has a history; so I tend to believe that there are interesting places in many countries. It seems to me that Russia is not exception here. I think there are at least two places which should visit each tourist.

First of all, my personal view, it is the Kremlin. It has a long history throughout the centuries. Many ages ago the Kremlin was a defensive installation; therefore it is walled with plenty of towers. All towers are distinct; furthermore each of them has unique name and height. Inside the Kremlin there are museums, churches and other historical monuments. Nowadays the Kremlin is Rissian president residence; therefore majority people associate The Kremlin as the heart of Russia.

Second place is Suzdal. It is located within 250 km east from Moscow. Suzdal is one of the oldest cities in Russia. People name Suzdal as openair museum. Suzdal does not have plants or factories, only churchs and a lot of historical monuments which come back you in the past ages. Suzdal saved his historical view; therefore it values among tourists.

In conclusion, these examples show that Russia has a gorgeous history. As a result, there are many historical places which you can visit. I think, each tourist should visit two of them: the Kremlin and Suzdal.

Each country has a history; so I tend to believe (sounds very funny here, completely out of place) that there are interesting places in many countries. It seems to me that Russia is not exception here. I think there are at least two places which should visit each tourist. (word order: s+v)

First of all, my personal view(sentence fragment), it is the Kremlin. It has a long history throughout the centuries. Many ages(years) ago the Kremlin was a defensive installation; therefore it is walled with plenty of towers. All towers are distinct;(one semicolon was quite enough for such a short essay) furthermore each of them has unique name and height. (for example?) Inside the Kremlin there are museums, churches and other historical monuments. Nowadays the Kremlin is Rissian(spelling)president (posessive case) residence; therefore (article) majority (preposition) people associate The Kremlin (associate +with) as the heart of Russia.

(Article) Second place is Suzdal. It is located within(wrong preposition) 250 km east from(wrong preposition) Moscow. Suzdal is one of the oldest cities in Russia. People name Suzdal (name somebody something)as(article) openair museum. Suzdal does not have plants or factories, only churchs and a lot of historical monuments which come back you in the past ages (the meaning is not clear). Suzdal saved his historical view (the meaning is not clear); therefore it values(you need passive here) among tourists.

In conclusion, these examples show that Russia has a gorgeous history(a very strange conclusion. It doesn't show any 'gorgeous history). As a result, there are many historical places which you can visit. I think, each tourist should visit two of them: the Kremlin and Suzdal.